1933

The football season is under way. Bea and I saw Coach Forrie Branch here in Plymouth when Hanover High was defeated by Plymouth High. It was a good close game. At the Dartmouth-University of New Hampshire game at Durham, we saw only Donand Mugs D'Arcy. Don is enjoying his work as director of development at Bradford Junior College in Haverhill, Mass.

Shall I make you feel old?? The great class of '33 has only one son in this year's freshman group - Frederick R, son of Fritz Meyer. Congratulations, Fritz! We'll look forward to seeing you in Hanover occasionally.

Bob Carr has retired. He is now living on Old Cummington Road in Worthington, Mass. He writes:

I retired from Howard Johnson's on July 1. For the last fifteen years we have spent most of our spare time here at the farm - except for vacations - then we traveled. We lived while employed in Englewood, N. J. My wife is a city girl but even she has grown fond of the farm. She has a doctorate in Administration-Education and has been working in Higher Ed- ucation - recommending to the trustees of Western Electric Fund worthy recipients of grants (faculty and institutions). The Department of Mathematics and the ABC project at Dartmouth have received recognition from the Fund. The American Society for Engineering Education and H. E. W. are suggesting that she make herself available as a consultant, which I hope she does. Having worked most of her life, I'm not sure she will be happy without outside interests. As for me, I hope to raise beef on my 300 acres and make maple syrup. We plan to spend the worst of the winter in some balmy place. This is great potato country. We rent some of our fields for this purpose. If you ever come this way, please stop. The coffee pot is always on. The invitation includes any and all of '33.

Worthington is a beautiful spot not very far off the Massachusetts Turnpike, so please plan to call on Bob. Bill Atwood brings us up-to-date on his activities:

Guess it's about time I reported on myself. I am still in Columbus, Ohio, and I now find myself as a social worker in the Franklin County Welfare Department.

I was not too satisfied with social work at first, but have now been appointed an employment counselor. When an able-bodied person applies for welfare, I find him a job instead of placing him on the dole. This is exciting to me and gratifying to our applicants, and certainly a break for the taxpayers. The National Alliance of Businessmen works closely with us in securing jobs. This will interest you because Charles Lazarus who is the brother of Ralph Lazarus '35, heads up our local NAB organization.

Please get in touch if you are ever in this area. I don't see many alumni. Bob Blackman is a friend of Woody Hayes and I went to dinner with him when he was here a couple of years ago.

John Reed has moved from Durango, Colo., to join our distinguished group in Washington. He writes: "I resigned the presidency of Fort Lewis College, effective July 1, 1969; I retained my professorship of botany; I obtained leave of absence from the Fort Lewis College faculty in order to serve as Section Head, Ecology and Systematic Biology of the Division of Biological and Medical Sciences of the National Science Foundation here in Washington; this is a one-year term."

Fred Jackson, development officer at the University of Rhode Island for the last eight years, was appointed director of development as of July 1. Fred writes:

Fortunately for me, as director of development at URI, our prospective donors are not too often the same as Dartmouth's, because as fund-raisers we are not in the same league. But gifts to URI increase each year. I do very little sailing now - except charter a cruising type boat for a week each summer — to bring the family together. Daughter Nancy and I raced 15' sloops the past two summers successfully on Pt. Judith Pond, but she is laid up this summer with a spinal fusion. She is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College and is now a graduate student doing work in psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. I keep busy on the Zoning Board, as president of a senior citizens' housing corporation, town citizens committee, and helping to develop a retirement residence for more affluent folk. For exercise I chop trees and dam the brook on our lovely property on Biscuit City Road in Kingston. We have wood chips in place of lawn, so no mowing and tending grass. We'd love to have Dartmouth classmates visit us here. Our hobby is socializing with friends now that our kids just visit us. Younger son (Richard) - Bowdoin and Indiana University for Ph.D. in chemistry is doing post doctoral research (X-ray chrystolography on a biological enzyme at London University for two years). Older boy (Edward) has master's license in Merchant Marine - sails for Sea-Land. Wife, Kate, is a social worker four days a week. So we are busy.

Jack Parker from Wyoming, Ohio, writes:

I am still doing business at the same old stand Parker Metal Stampings (he's president, I believe). We don't make any money just pay taxes. May Fechhiemer is with mehas been for almost 20 years. Seldom see any '33ers except our local group. No grandchilren. My only daughter (Carol) is 19 - 2nd year at Stevens.

My athletics today are of the spectator type - our Reds and Bengals. Play golf and travel for recreation and fun. My wife just broke her hip so we won't go far for a while.

It is awfully nice to hear from you, Jack, and I hope that your wife has a quick recovery.

I received some new vital statistics on ErvPrince, head of the Math Department - River Country Day School, Chestnut Hill, Mass. He is a senior master and has been there 29 years. "Four sons: 1. Frederick A., married Gail Scagliarini, one son, Michael, 2 years. 2. Jeffrey S., graduate student, Cornell, working on Ph.D. in Marine Bot- any. 3 and 4. Twins, David L., and Roger P., 15 years old, now sophomores at Rivers. One wife - Ellie - whom I have had since 1939 (are you sure? — my records show 1937)."

Early in September I received the following from Hank Dericks: "From Tulsa, Okla. I occasionally see Chuck March and CharlieClark of our class who live here. I will spend the next three weeks in the Caribbean with my two sons, Gerry class of '65 now at Columbia Medical and Dick class of '68 and N.R.O.T.C. now gunnery of a destroyer returned this week from Vietnam, and of course my wife the former Betty Brewer class of '34 at Smith." I hope you have a great time.

News Flashes! "Dosch" Doscher became the new chairman of the New York State Grievance Appeals Board on September 2. He has been a member of the board for four years. He is a former county judge, a state supreme court justice, and served one term as state assemblyman.

Kent Rhodes of Chappaqua, N. Y., has been named senior vice president of Reader's Digest responsible as director of publishing service. He was formerly with Fortune Magazine, but joined the Digest in 1944. He is a director of the National Better Business Bureau and a trustee of the Harvey School of Katonah.

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